National Indie Bestsellers

Trade Paperback Fiction

Bestseller List for October 23, 2014
Based on sales for the week ending October 19, 2014
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  Trade Paperback Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn, Broadway, $15, 9780553418361
Flynn's mesmerizing thriller about a marriage gone terribly wrong is now a major motion picture.		 1/8
2. Orphan Train
Christina Baker Kline, Morrow, $14.99, 9780061950728
A powerful novel of upheaval and resilience, of unexpected friendship, and of the secrets we carry that keep us from finding out who we are.		 2/39
3. The Best American Short Stories 2014
Jennifer Egan, Heidi Pitlor (Eds.), Mariner, $14.95, 9780547868868
A very satisfying collection of the year's best short stories.		 6/2
4. The Luminaries
Eleanor Catton, Back Bay, $18, 9780316074292
Catton's breathtaking feat of storytelling in which everything is connected but nothing is as it seems is the winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize.		 8/2
5. The Museum of Extraordinary Things
Alice Hoffman, Scribner, $16, 9781451693577
Hoffman's mesmerizing novel of impassioned love between two vastly different souls in New York during the volatile first decades of the 20th century.		 4/3
6. Someone
Alice McDermott, Picador USA, $15, 9781250055361
This novel by the National Book Award-winning McDermott is a fully realized portrait of one woman's life in all its complexity.		 9/2
7. This Is Where I Leave You
Jonathan Tropper, Plume, $16, 9780142181713
Tropper's funny and moving novel about a family reunited for a funeral is now a major motion picture.		 3/7
8. Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Anchor, $15.95, 9780307455925
A dazzling novel of love and race centered around a young man and woman from Nigeria, by the author of Half of a Yellow Sun.		 5/32
9. The Rosie Project
Graeme Simsion, S&S, $15.99, 9781476729091
Simsion's heartfelt and humorous debut novel about a college professor's search for the perfect wife.		 7/20
10. The Best of Me
Nicholas Sparks, Grand Central, $15, 9781455556557
The powerful love story by the bestselling author of The Notebook is now a major motion picture.		 13/4
11. The Target
David Baldacci, Grand Central, $16, 9781455521180
A riveting thriller featuring Will Robie, by the bestselling author of The Hit.		 12/5
12. The Signature of All Things
Elizabeth Gilbert, Penguin, $17, 9780143125846
A sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, by the bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love.		 10/17
13. Sycamore Row
John Grisham, Bantam, $16, 9780553393613
In this bestselling thriller, Grisham returns to the setting and the compelling characters of his first novel, A Time to Kill.		 11/8
14. The Silver Star
Jeannette Walls, Scribner, $16, 9781451661545
Walls' heartbreaking and redemptive novel about a girl who challenges the injustice of the adult world.		 /19
15. The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaiman, Morrow, $14.99, 9780062255662
A brilliantly imaginative and poignant fairy tale from the modern master of wonder and terror.		 14/20

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